Tuvia tenenbom biography

Tuvia Tenenbom: The JTNY's artistic director, journalist, international bestselling author

Tuvia Tenenbom, the author of four  Spiegel bestsellers and five Israeli bestsellers, is a journalist, dramatist, and the founder of the Jewish Theater of New York.

Tuvia studied for his doctorate in English literature at St. John's University, earned his MFA in playwriting at CUNY-Brooklyn, BS in mathematics and computer science at Touro, and finished his rabbinical studies in Jerusalem. He also studied Christianity and Islam in Israel and New York as well as journalism, acting, theater, and finance (at NYU).

Tuvia was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theater" by the French Le Monde, "founder of The Theater of Catastrophe" by the German Die Zeit, "a New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv, "free artist who fights for truth and tolerance" by the Belgian Le Vif L'Express, and "one of the most iconoclastic and innovative of contempo